Masochism.
Contributors: Deleuze, Gilles.; Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895.
Publisher: Zone Books; Distributed by the MIT Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Sacher-Masoch, Leopold, Ritter von, 1835-1895 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Sade, marquis de, 1740-1814 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Erotic literature -- History and criticism.; Masochism in literature.; Sadism in literature.
Description: "Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (b. 1835) was a Professor of History and a celebrated German novelist of the latter half of the 19th century. Here, in Venus in Furs, Masoch's most famous novel, one finds the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome - fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment and of course the perpetual and volatile presence of a terrible coldness. Yet what we actually encounter has little to do with these reductive caricatures." "Deleuze's essay is an attempt to restore to Masoch's work the rigorous and informed philosophical examination that is due it. Deleuze's essay - the most profound study yet produced on the relations between Masochism and Sadism - seeks to develop and explain Masoch's peculiar way of 'desexualizing' love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : G. Braziller, 1971.
Table of contents: title: Coldness and cruelty / Gilles Deleuze; title: Venus in furs / Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.